This article approaches the theme of villainy in two ways. It looks at the vilification of a figure named politique in two pro-Ligue pamphlets printed in Paris in 1589. Within this, the word vilain is deployed as one of several clustered insults used in the process of vilification. I discuss the problems of meaning associated with these word uses which seem primarily intended to insult, wound, and to vilify supporters of the Valois (and then Bourbon) monarchy, and ask whether vilain has any particular significance, or even ‘content’, in these texts. I use a methodological framework that employs linguistic theories of contextually derived meaning, and literary approaches that privilege analysis of particular ‘key’ words, to explore the meeting of the words politique and vilain in a continuum between ‘meaningless’ hate speech and ‘meaningful’ socio-political commentary.

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'Vilain et deshonneste'：宗教战争结束时的反政治论战

本文以两种方式探讨反派的主题。它着眼于1589年在巴黎印刷的两本支持法制的小册子中名为politique的人物的卑鄙行为。在其中，“卑鄙”一词被用作卑鄙行为中使用的几类侮辱性行为之一。我讨论了与这些用词相关的含义问题，这些用词似乎主要是为了侮辱，伤害和侮辱瓦卢瓦（然后是波旁王朝）君主制的支持者，并问苦苦证词是否具有特别的意义，甚至是“内容”，这些文本。我使用一个方法框架，该框架采用上下文相关含义的语言理论，并采用对特定“关键词”进行特权分析的文学方法，